The theme for January is: “Courage”

Lena Stevens – Happy New Year!

At the start of this new year, we are still recalibrating (theme for December 2024) closing a cycle, and investigating where we spend our time and energy. It is a slow start energetically with an emphasis on allowing ideas to percolate and become ripe before we anchor them in a concrete and defined intentions and goals.

The first part of this month is an important time to give space to this percolation with the courage to both hold back and allow for right timing and to move forward when right timing gives the green light.

What is courage? Courage is an energy that allows us to cut though fear and resistance and move either towards or away from a situation, person, intention, action, habit or pattern. Courage encourages us to face challenges, our own hard truths and to make the choices and decisions we know we need to make even though they may disappoint others or have difficult consequences.

Courage helps us stay disciplined around those choices and decisions. Courage also supports us to end, complete and release an attachment, or to step into the unknown of a new experience, relationship, project, pattern, attitude or belief.

The opposite of courage is cowardice. Cowardice is run by fear. Cowardice leads to anxiety, depression, lethargy, stagnation, self- judgment and negativity.

So this month is about accessing courage, building courage, and using courage to begin this year on a proactive path of being awake, aware, and present, and being willing to embrace the opportunities as well as to complete what is finished and to eliminate what is past its usefulness.

Courage is an energy that needs to be cultivated and built and exercised much like a muscle. Start with small things and work up.

These are just some of the areas where you may need courage:

♦ To face hard truths.
♦ To make hard decisions and stick to them.
♦ To start something new that is out of your comfort level.
♦ To face your fears.
♦ To end or release something that you are attached to.
♦ To take responsibility for your health, actions, and personal well-being.
♦ To change negative patterns.
♦ To be patient, to wait, to trust right path and right timing.

How the month shows up

You Personally

This is a month of internal work to begin with and then external expression of that work. The main work is around the examination of where your energy is going, where you want it to go, what is important to you, what you need to change or refine, what you need to let go of or complete, and where you need more courage.

Work on patience, acceptance and inner truth, and allow it to lead you into a greater understanding of yourself and your personal authenticity. Since one of the themes this year is about reinventing self, this is a good month to begin that process.

This begins with letting go, clearing out, decluttering of stuff, responsibilities that are not yours, and anything that holds old energy including past dreams, intentions and patterns. Then there is the truth telling of what you really desire and the courage to communicate it. This is followed by choices and commitments around things that need to change.

Supported by your own discipline, change is manifested as a reinvented self. This is a process of self-discovery that will be with us over the next number of months but it starts now. So take the time and do the work.

Relationships

Relationships mostly focus on family and home and those that feel like family and home. It will be very obvious if those around you do not feel like “your people”. As you examine where you are putting your time, resources and energy, the relationships that are important to you will become clear, and the relationships that are simply part of an old pattern or have become an energy leak will also be apparent. Even some family members that have become energy leaks may need to be considered and perhaps some boundaries established around your time and energy.

New relationships are also bound to enter into your life especially as you use the creativity of the year to move your ideas and authentic desires outside the box of what is familiar. This creativity draws a new experience towards you with new players, new relationships and new opportunities for collaboration, learning and growth.

Health And The Physical Body

It is time to have the courage to take responsibility for your own health and well-being. No one else will do it for you. If you have been “thinking” about signing up for a class, a support group, studying a discipline, adopting a good habit for the body, or starting a helpful practice, the time for “thinking” is over. Do it now. And this is not something you choose because you think it is good for you or someone else wants you to do it. This is something you do for yourself because you intuitively know it will lead to more health, vitality and wellness.

Listen to your intuition about what your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs are and make a plan that is unique to you. Have the courage to tell the truth and to face what needs to change to support your well-being.

This is all a part of self-care. The courage will be to initiate it. The discipline will be to make time and space for it for follow through. Set boundaries so that nothing gets in the way of what you need.

Business Partnerships And Projects

If something is not working, have the courage to end it, change it, or redirect it. Examine where the energy leaks are and where you may be putting energy, time and resources that are not sustaining a project, partnership or business. Beware of feeling victimized by any situation where the tendency is to look for whom to blame for things not working out well.

So, the first part of the month is to acknowledge what is not sustainable and eliminate or dissolve the structures and patterns involved, and the second part of the month is to reinvent, redirect, implement change, and create a new incarnation.

This may require a complete make over or simply some refinements. The clues will be in the discovery of where your energy, time and resources have been going without the desired results. In the reboot it is important to trust both your intuition and right timing. All of the above will take courage. Towards the end of the month opportunities for stepping into something new, different and slightly risky will be available. Move towards it only if it feels right.

Environment

Your home environment and the space you spend most of your time in will be in focus this month. Have the courage to purge anything that holds old energy. If it is still something you truly feel you wish to keep, find a way to give it a facelift either physically or figuratively.

Old energy of any kind will feel burdensome and may become an energy leak if you do not deal with it. The clearing of space both internal and external is helpful this month as well as paying close attention to what kind of environment you wish to create for yourself to be supported, nurtured and comfortable.

A good practice will be to get rid of one physical thing every day. It can be a small or large, as mundane as a newspaper or as significant as a piece of clothing, furniture or other possession. Another good practice would be to either upgrade, fix, or clean something every day. It could be as small as pruning dead leaves off a plant or as significant as a new coat of paint or a repair.

On another note, the greater physical environment is teaching patience, resilience, presence and responsibility of choice as we navigate weather patterns, travel adventures, plans and our own attachments and expectations. We will continue to have extremes in conditions and temperatures. Lean into them instead of resisting. All of them have a power that can be harnessed.

SF Source The Power Path Jan 2025